Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2014, stage four: Mark Cavendish completes third win in four days

Mark Cavendish won his third stage in four days in Turkey as the Omega Pharma-Quick-Step sprint train continued to sweep all before them in the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey.

So dominant were Omega Pharma-Quick-Step that Cavendish, who safely crested a late climb, still had four team-mates with him in the final 1.5km and only needed to launch his sprint in the final 100metres, winning comfortably from Maximiliano Richeze (Lampre-Merida) with lead-out man Mark Renshaw third.

Cavendish's main rivals Marcel Kittel (Giant-Shimano) and André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) are not racing in Turkey.

Fellow Briton Adam Yates, 21, whose twin brother and Orica-GreenEdge team-mate Simon fell and broke his collarbone in Tuesday’s third stage, finished safely in the peloton to consolidate second place in the overall standings, still six seconds behind leader Rein Taaramae (Cofidis, Solutions Crédits).

The 124.2km stage had earlier been stopped and then restarted after heavy rain.